Sunday, 30 August 2009

Question for August 31 - PS

What do the colors (in the legend on the left bottom of the image) represent?
Bonus: also identify what the small yellow square dot means.

(Click on the image to see a larger version.)


10 comments:

Kiran Vyakaranam said...

Countries that have participated in the football world cup, the legend is a scale of the number of times they participated. The yellow squares represent host nations

Madhur said...

Football related Question?

Yellow is host country I am assuming this is the Football World-cup related.

And the Bluest legend indicate which country has won the world cup.
Not sure about the rest...

Rahul said...

I am guessing dark blue stands for the countries which have won the football world cup. The other colours stand for the number of appearances in football world cups with blue being the most and dark green the least (=1?)

The small yellow dots indicate the countries which have hosted the world cup.

Hariharasudhan Viswanathan said...

Something to do with FIFA world cup? Number of wins maybe? USA > Mexico doesn't sound right though :)Yellow dots were the hosts?

Dev said...

Something to do with soccer...

Nikhil said...

My guess (which is based on working in reverse after trying to figure out what the yellow dots meant) is that these are the number of football world cups each of these countries have played. That's why India has nothing and there are high numbers in European and South American countries.

Yellow dots are the countries which have hosted the WC. Hence Uruguay, South Korea/Japan get dots.

Sailesh Ganesh said...

This one's a nice juicy full toss. This is a map of best performances at the football world cup by each country. From top to bottom, the legend should read: winners, finalists, semi-finals, quarter-finals, round of 16 and group stage. Countries in gray have never played in the world cup. The yellow square shows which countries have hosted the football world cup.

Ankur said...

That is to do with the World Cup Football Results

From top to bottom:
Winners
Loosing Finalist
Semi Finalist
.
.
so on

The yellow dots are the host countries

pratYk said...

Yearly Wine Production / Consumption ?

lol ...

The Answer said...

Answer: Map of countries' best result at the soccer World Cup. The yellow dots are the host countries.

Most of you got it mostly right. Ankur and Sailesh nailed the exact answer.

Here is the original picture.